This post will specifically talk about bloggers and how they can create a blog which reflects their personality online.

The following badges, widgets or gadgets as you might call it will help you share more information with your readers without you writing about it.

Let’s start with the hottest in Town..

Twitter Badge: These are available in all shapes, sizes, colors, etc. There are so many variations of this badge that I am sure you will surely something you like. These badges show your latest Tweets on the blog.(Follow @tnerd on Twitter)

Official:

• http://twitter.com/badges/blogger

WP-Plugins:

• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitter-for-wordpress/
• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitter-tools/

Customized:

• http://www.bloggerbuster.com/2008/04/add-customized-twitter-widget-to- your.html

Flickr Badge: This badge shows all your publically available pictures on Flickr. Just signin to your account and configure this badge to get the code.

This is what the badge looks like..

Get your Flickr Widget from here…

Wakoopa Widget: This is not for the faint of hearts. Wakoopa tracks all activities on your computer and reports back to the site to update your profile of all the softwares that are being used on the computer. This list can be shared with your friends and contacts based on your preferences.  Click here to read more about Wakoopa.

This is what a Wakoopa badge looks like..

MyBlogLog: MyBlogLog maintains information about you and visitors on your blog. This information is then displayed in a attractive format which also encourages social traffic from blog to another.

SIGAMP Badge: SIGAMP shows the song you are currently listening to on your computer. This badge can be installed on any blog or site and the moment you start listening to music it starts sharing information on the badge. With the paid version of this service you can customize the widget according to your needs or even upload your own image.

Here is what the (free) badge looks like..

Google Latitude for Blogs: Google Latitude badge shows your current location to all your blog readers, not everyone is comfortable sharing such information.  Click here to read more about Google Latitude..

Here is what the badge will look like on your blog..

Click here to get your badge..

Google Talk for Blog: Connecting with your readers is one of the most important part of the personal blogging. Google Talk lets you connect with your readers without giving away any personal information such as your ID or any other information.

Once any of the users click on the following badge you will instantly receive an alert on your Gtalk client and you can start chatting.

Here is what the blog looks like..

Get your badge here..

Geekchart : This is a new one. Once you register with the service you can add the userID’s of services like, Twitter, Stumbleupon, Digg, Blog, etc.. and it generates a chart based on your last 30days activity on these services.

Here is what it typically looks like..

Syedabbas’s Geek Chart

Click here to get your own Geekchart!

Other Badges: (Leave a comment and let us know about a badge you’d like to see on the list, we’ll add it)

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/editbadge.php

FriendFeed: http://friendfeed.com/embed/widget

That’s exactly what widgets from services like Feedburner and Feedblitz are for. It’s a way of convincing your readers to subscribe to the sites RSS by telling them that these many people have already subscribed because they believe that the content on this site is useful why don’t you subscribe too?

TwitterCounter.com adds to the list of widgets which shows the number of users following you on Twitter. This widget like any other can be placed on your site/blog which looks very similar to the feedburner widget.

Click here to follow TNerd on Twitter

TwitterCounter.com offers more than just a widget. It offers a paid service ($100) called Featured TwitterCounter User, where a user profile is displayed on the homepage for a week. In addition it shows users information such as, since when TwitterCounter has started following the user, Average growth per day, Predictions for next month, etc..

So far the service has been used by 66,715,749 blogs and sites. The service is getting popular by the day and the number of blogs using the widget is a testament of its success.

TwitterCounter also shows you a list of Top 100 users which it topped by Barack Obama with 92,000+ followers, followed by Kevin Rose in the second place with 65,000+ followers as of 6th of October.  

I exchanged a few e-mails with Boris, a Dutch serial entrepreneur to know the roadmap of TwitterCounter.

“TwitterCounter has been growing like crazy as you can see. We have buttons on thousands of websites. We plan to start offering a ‘Gold’ member plan for a small fee which will show you more stats.” – said Boris.

He also mentioned that the “Featured User” on TwitterCounter is in much demand; currently there is a waiting time of close to 2 months. “We have a lot of demand so we will raise that amount soon.”

While I think this is a useful and essential service for the blogs who want to brag about their reach on services like Twitter, I also think that having too many widgets showing number of followers will look a little cluttered.

So, I am looking forward to a service similar to FriendFeed which will pull the subscriber/follower information from different services and show it on a single badge. Somebody do this and count yourself in the list of Web 2.0 entrepreneur right away.